Run: 2026-10-08-01M4D9Y39Q3RJXTRH3EJ915TPM

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Reasoning, Medium)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 16.5s
Cost:: $0.001487
Provider:: Claude Platform on AWS

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
94.74%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
90.59%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
71.78%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
78.89%	Filter word density	(details)
100.00%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
78.40%	Name drop frequency	(details)
0.00%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
100.00%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
94.79%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
100.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
100.00%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
73.93%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
33.77%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
81.97%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
75.89%	Technical jargon density	(details)
69.44%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
88.1399%	Overall

Model input

System

You are an expert fiction writer.

Always keep the following rules in mind:
- Write in past tense and use General English spelling, grammar, and colloquialisms/slang.
- Write in active voice
- Always follow the "show, don't tell" principle.
- Avoid adverbs and cliches and overused/commonly used phrases. Aim for fresh and original descriptions.
- Convey events and story through dialogue.
- Mix short, punchy sentences with long, descriptive ones. Drop fill words to add variety.
- Skip "he/she said said" dialogue tags and convey people's actions or face expressions through their speech
- Avoid mushy dialog and descriptions, have dialogue always continue the action, never stall or add unnecessary fluff. Vary the descriptions to not repeat yourself.
- Put dialogue on its own paragraph to separate scene and action.
- Reduce indicators of uncertainty like "trying" or "maybe"

When writing text:
- NEVER conclude the scene on your own, follow the beat instructions very closely.
- NEVER end with foreshadowing.
- NEVER write further than what I prompt you with.
- AVOID imagining possible endings, NEVER deviate from the instructions.
- STOP EARLY if the continuation contains what was required in the instructions. You do not need to fill out the full amount of words possible.

User/Human

Take into account the following glossary of characters/locations/items/lore... when writing your response:
<codex>
<character id="4412" name="Aurora Carter" aliases="Rory, Laila, Aurora, Carter, Malphora" pronouns="she/her" species="Human" storyRole="Protagonist">
  <eyeColor>bright blue</eyeColor>
  <hair>straight shoulder-length black</hair>
  <height>5'6"</height>
  <age>25</age>
  <scar>small crescent-shaped scar on her left wrist from a childhood accident</scar>
  <description>Aurora, referred to by her friends as Rory, is cool-headed, intelligent, and known for quick out-of-the-box thinking.</description>
  <backstory>Born in Cardiff to an Irish barrister father (Brendan Carter) and Welsh teacher mother (Jennifer Carter née Ellis), Rory reluctantly pursued Pre-Law at Cardiff University. She fled to London at the behest of her childhood friend Eva after leaving an abusive ex named Evan. By day, Rory works part-time as a delivery person for Yu-Fei Cheung's Golden Empress restaurant. She lives in a flat above Silas' bar.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="4418" name="Nyx" aliases="Nyx, the Shadow, Nightwhisper" pronouns="they/them" species="Shade" storyRole="Wild Card">
  <eyeColor>faintly glowing violet</eyeColor>
  <height>approximately 6'2" in solid form</height>
  <age>ageless</age>
  <form>humanoid silhouette of living shadow, can shift between solid and incorporeal</form>
  <voice>sounds like a whisper carried on the wind</voice>
  <description>A being of living shadow, existing between the mortal plane and the spaces between realms.</description>
  <backstory>Nyx was once a human sorcerer named Aldric who became trapped between realms during a failed summoning ritual in 1643. They now exist as a Shade, bound to the mortal plane but able to slip between shadows.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="4424" name="Isolde Varga" aliases="Isolde, the Seer" pronouns="she/her" species="Half-Fae" storyRole="Oracle">
  <eyeColor>pale lavender</eyeColor>
  <hair>silver, reaching her waist</hair>
  <height>5'5"</height>
  <age>300 years old</age>
  <appearance>ethereal, ageless</appearance>
  <speech>speaks in riddles</speech>
  <footprints>leaves no footprints when she walks</footprints>
  <compulsion>cannot lie (Fae compulsion) but can mislead</compulsion>
  <description>A Half-Fae seer exiled from the Fae Courts for sharing visions with mortals.</description>
  <backstory>She now lives in a hidden grove in Richmond Park, offering cryptic prophecies to those who seek her out.</backstory>
</character>

<location id="853" name="Dymas (Gluttony)" aliases="Dymas, gluttony, Dymasian" realm="Hel" sin="Gluttony">
  <ruler>Prince Belphegor</ruler>
  <skyColor>warm amber</skyColor>
  <description>A place of excess and indulgence. Sprawling vineyards, orchards, and gardens provide exotic ingredients for master chefs — often helbound souls contracted from Earth. Grand feasts and culinary competitions are common.</description>
</location>

<location id="861" name="The Fae Grove" aliases="Isolde's grove, Richmond grove, the Grove" realm="Earth (Fae-touched)">
  <parkLocation>Richmond Park</parkLocation>
  <standingStones>ancient oak standing stones mark the boundary</standingStones>
  <timeBehavior>time moves differently — an hour inside can be minutes or days outside</timeBehavior>
  <flora>wildflowers bloom year-round</flora>
  <description>A hidden clearing that exists in a pocket between Earth and the Fae realm.</description>
</location>

<item id="2001" name="Heartstone Pendant" aliases="the pendant, Heartstone" type="Artifact" origin="Dymas">
  <gemstoneColor>deep crimson</gemstoneColor>
  <chainMaterial>silver chain</chainMaterial>
  <size>roughly the size of a thumbnail</size>
  <behavior>pulses faintly with warmth when near a Hel portal</behavior>
  <glow>faint inner glow</glow>
  <description>Given to Aurora by an unknown benefactor.</description>
</item>

<item id="2006" name="Fae-Forged Blade" aliases="the Fae blade, Isolde's gift" type="Weapon" origin="The Fae Courts">
  <material>moonsilver</material>
  <shape>slender, leaf-shaped dagger</shape>
  <temperature>always cold to the touch</temperature>
  <glow>faintly luminescent in moonlight</glow>
  <power>can cut through magical wards; particularly effective against demons</power>
  <givenTo>given to Aurora by Isolde as a gift</givenTo>
  <description>A weapon of the Fae Courts, rare and highly coveted.</description>
</item>

<lore id="7001" name="The Veil" aliases="the Veil, the Barrier, the Boundary" category="Cosmology">
  <solsticeEffect>weakens during the winter solstice, strengthens during the summer solstice</solsticeEffect>
  <appearance>faint shimmering distortion visible only to those with supernatural sight</appearance>
  <monitoring>rift points (tears in the Veil) are monitored by the Wardens</monitoring>
  <description>The Veil is the metaphysical barrier separating Earth from Hel and the Fae Realms.</description>
</lore>
</codex>

Continue the story using the following instructions:
<instructions>
Write a fully fleshed out scene of at least 1000 words in the fantasy genre.

A small group enters an ancient, otherworldly place for the first time. The environment is alien and wondrous. Describe their exploration — what they see, hear, and feel as they move deeper. Include moments of discovery, unease, and wonder. Let the world-building emerge through the characters' experience rather than exposition.

Use the codex entries above as your world reference for characters, setting, and lore.
Only include the prose of the scene without any markdown or commentary.
</instructions>

Model response

The oaks came into view just after the bracken gave way to short, silver-tipped grass. Aurora counted them without meaning to. Nine stones, each taller than a man, leaned toward one another like old women sharing a secret. Moss furred their faces. Someone had carved spirals into the nearest one, and the lines had worn so smooth that her fingers itched to trace them.

Isolde stepped between two of the stones and did not pause. Her silver hair slid down her back like poured mercury, catching the last of the dusk. Aurora watched the frost on the path. It bore the marks of Nyx's boots, the scuff of her own trainers, and the dog-prints of a jogger from that morning. Isolde's heel came down on the same frost, and the white stayed unbroken.

"You're staring at the ground again," Isolde said, without turning. "The ground has nothing to tell you that the sky hasn't already said."

"The ground is the only thing here that makes sense to me," Aurora said. "Forgive me for wanting something solid under my feet."

"Solid is a lovely word for a thing that moves when you are not looking."

Nyx drifted up beside her. Where the light from the lamp posts along the road failed to reach, their outline seemed to pool on the grass, and the shadows of the oaks bent toward them as if drawn on a string. The violet glow of their eyes flickered once. "She is baiting you, Rory. Don't give her the satisfaction of a reaction."

"I'm not reacting."

"Your jaw is doing the thing."

Aurora unclenched it. The voice Nyx used sounded like a breath blown across an open bottle, low enough that she felt it in her teeth more than heard it. She had stopped being unsettled by that months ago. She had not stopped feeling it.

They passed between the stones.

The air changed first. It went from the bite of late October to something warm and damp, like the inside of a greenhouse after rain. Then the sound changed. The traffic from Richmond Park Road, the distant hum of the city, the rustle of the wind through the bracken, all of it dropped away in a single breath, as though someone had lowered a lid over the world. Aurora heard her own pulse. Beside her, Nyx's footsteps made no sound at all.

"Oh," she said.

The clearing opened in front of them, and the light was wrong. It was not sunset, and it was not dawn. It had the amber softness of late afternoon in midsummer, though the sky above the oaks was a deep violet bruise with stars pricked through it. The grass underfoot was dense and cool. Wildflowers grew in drifts of colour she had no names for: petals the blue of a gas flame, blooms so pale yellow they seemed made of candle wax, clusters of bell-shaped things that hummed faintly when the breeze brushed them. Every stem was in flower. She saw buds opening as she watched, and old blossoms folding into seed, all at the same time.

"Wildflowers bloom year-round here," Isolde said. "Do not pick them. They remember hands."

Aurora pulled her fingers back from a stalk of pale gold. She had not realised she had reached for it.

They walked on. A stream wound through the centre of the glade, so clear that she could count the pebbles on its bed, though when she looked down at the water, it reflected a sky with no moon in it. Small silver fish turned in the current, and each one left a faint ripple of light behind, like a struck match trailing smoke. Aurora crouched at the bank and let her fingertips hover above the surface. The air above the water felt colder than the air beside it.

Her hand moved to the chain at her throat without her meaning it to. The Heartstone Pendant sat against her collarbone, and she felt the faint warmth in it stir, the way it had done in the flat above Silas' bar the night the fizzing had started in the pipes. Warm, then cool again. She pressed her palm flat against her sternum and said nothing.

Nyx was watching her. The violet of their eyes narrowed. Neither of them spoke about it.

"How old is this place?" Aurora asked instead, standing up and brushing off her knees.

Isolde stopped beneath the largest tree in the clearing. Its trunk was wider than a car and split into a dozen limbs, and its bark had a silvery sheen, like the scales of a fish. Something had been carved into the wood at head height, long ago, and the letters were not any alphabet Aurora recognised. They shifted when she looked at them, reordering into shapes she almost read before they slid away again.

"Older than your language has words for," Isolde said. "Older than the first person who thought to ask such a question. Here, time does not flow. It pools. An hour spent beneath these branches may be the blink of an eye to the city beyond the stones. Or it may be a season. Or three."

"That's not an answer," Aurora said.

"No. It is a warning dressed as one. You are welcome to decide which."

Nyx laughed, a soft hiss like wind slipping through a crack. "She cannot lie, Rory. Only mislead. Listen carefully to what she does not say."

Aurora's hand drifted toward the hilt at her hip, where the Fae-forged blade rested in its sheath. Even through the leather, the metal was cold, colder than the night air, a steady ache that seemed to pull her thoughts into a neat, sharp line. The moonsilver would glow when the moon came out. She did not know whether there would be a moon here.

"Why bring us in now?" she asked.

Isolde turned at last. Her pale lavender eyes held the violet of the sky without catching any of its colour. "Because the Veil is thinning at the rift points, and the Wardens are counting the stones. And because something in your chest has begun to answer something beneath the earth."

Aurora's breath stalled in her throat. Beside her, Nyx went very still, the edges of their shape wavering like smoke caught in a draught.

Somewhere deep in the glade, a bell-shaped flower began to hum.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

94.74%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Aurora asked instead [instead]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.474

leniency

0.947

rawRatio

0.111

effectiveRatio

0.105

90.59%

AI-ism adverb frequency

Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)

wordCount

1063

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"carefully"
count	1

adverb	"very"
count	1

highlights

0	"carefully"
1	"very"

100.00%

AI-ism character names

Target: 0 AI-default names (17 tracked, −20% each)

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

100.00%

AI-ism location names

Target: 0 AI-default location names (33 tracked, −20% each)

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

71.78%

AI-ism word frequency

Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)

wordCount

1063

totalAiIsms

found

word	"flickered"
count	1

word	"unsettled"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"footsteps"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"wavering"
count	1

highlights

0	"flickered"
1	"unsettled"
2	"pulse"
3	"footsteps"
4	"warmth"
5	"wavering"

100.00%

Cliché density

Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window

totalCliches

maxInWindow

found

label	"eyes widened/narrowed"
count	1

highlights

0	"eyes narrowed"

100.00%

Emotion telling (show vs. tell)

Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling

emotionTells	0
narrationSentences	67
matches	(empty)

78.89%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

(empty)

hedgeMatches

0	"seemed to"
1	"began to"

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)

analyzedSentences	78
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	46
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1063
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	12
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

78.40%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

838

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.43

worstName

"Aurora"

maxWindowNameDensity

2.5

worstWindowName

"Aurora"

discoveredNames

Nyx	7
Aurora	12
October	1
Richmond	1
Park	1
Road	1
Heartstone	1
Pendant	1
Warm	1
Isolde	7
Fae-forged	1

persons

0	"Nyx"
1	"Aurora"
2	"Pendant"
3	"Warm"
4	"Isolde"

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Park"
2	"Road"

globalScore

0.784

windowScore

0.833

0.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"sounded like a breath blown across an open"
1	"seemed made of candle wax, clusters of bell-shaped things that hummed faintly when the breeze brushed them"
2	"ache that seemed to pull her thoughts into a neat, sharp line"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	1063
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	78
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

36.66

std

30.61

0.835

sampleLengths

0	64
1	69
2	23
3	23
4	15
5	62
6	3
7	6
8	44
9	5
10	82
11	3
12	117
13	13
14	20
15	88
16	65
17	16
18	15
19	74
20	55
21	6
22	14
23	25
24	64
25	7
26	50
27	24
28	11

94.79%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"being unsettled"
1	"been carved"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

140

matches

0	"was watching"

100.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons

emDashCount	0
semicolonCount	0
flaggedSentences	0
totalSentences	78
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking

wordCount	699
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	14
adverbRatio	0.020028612303290415
lyAdverbCount	3
lyAdverbRatio	0.004291845493562232

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)

totalSentences	78
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

13.63

std

9.8

0.719

sampleLengths

0	15
1	6
2	17
3	4
4	22
5	11
6	16
7	7
8	22
9	13
10	10
11	13
12	14
13	9
14	15
15	5
16	36
17	8
18	13
19	3
20	6
21	3
22	26
23	9
24	6
25	5
26	4
27	21
28	4
29	39
30	5
31	9
32	3
33	12
34	9
35	26
36	7
37	40
38	5
39	18
40	6
41	7
42	11
43	9
44	3
45	37
46	23
47	13
48	12
49	14

73.93%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	4
diversityRatio	0.47435897435897434
totalSentences	78
uniqueOpeners	37

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Then the sound changed."
1	"Somewhere deep in the glade,"

ratio

0.033

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Her silver hair slid down"
1	"It bore the marks of"
2	"She had stopped being unsettled"
3	"She had not stopped feeling"
4	"They passed between the stones."
5	"It went from the bite"
6	"It was not sunset, and"
7	"It had the amber softness"
8	"She saw buds opening as"
9	"She had not realised she"
10	"They walked on."
11	"Her hand moved to the"
12	"She pressed her palm flat"
13	"Its trunk was wider than"
14	"They shifted when she looked"
15	"She did not know whether"
16	"Her pale lavender eyes held"

ratio

0.279

33.77%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oaks came into view"
1	"Aurora counted them without meaning"
2	"Moss furred their faces."
3	"Someone had carved spirals into"
4	"Isolde stepped between two of"
5	"Her silver hair slid down"
6	"Aurora watched the frost on"
7	"It bore the marks of"
8	"Isolde's heel came down on"
9	"Isolde said, without turning"
10	"Nyx drifted up beside her."
11	"The violet glow of their"
12	"Aurora unclenched it."
13	"The voice Nyx used sounded"
14	"She had stopped being unsettled"
15	"She had not stopped feeling"
16	"They passed between the stones."
17	"The air changed first."
18	"It went from the bite"
19	"The traffic from Richmond Park"

ratio

0.852

81.97%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Even through the leather, the"

ratio

0.016

75.89%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The traffic from Richmond Park Road, the distant hum of the city, the rustle of the wind through the bracken, all of it dropped away in a single breath, as thou…"
1	"Wildflowers grew in drifts of colour she had no names for: petals the blue of a gas flame, blooms so pale yellow they seemed made of candle wax, clusters of bel…"
2	"Even through the leather, the metal was cold, colder than the night air, a steady ache that seemed to pull her thoughts into a neat, sharp line."

69.44%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Isolde said, without turning"

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags	8
fancyCount	0
fancyTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	19
tagDensity	0.421
leniency	0.842
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

88.1399%